How to Use dump truck in a Sentence

dump truck

noun
  • Both the minivan and the dump truck overturned in the road.
    Cameron Knight, Cincinnati.com, 16 July 2019
  • Bicyclists should not be asked to compete with dump trucks.
    Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 5 Aug. 2019
  • The officers wheel the chair over to the truck and toss all their belongings into the dump truck.
    Globe Correspondent, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2019
  • An ambulance in front of the dump truck is smashed up against the back of a fire engine, which is resting against the right guardrail.
    Eric Levenson, CNN, 30 July 2019
  • The raids filled a dump truck with about $1 million worth of illicit weed cultivated by unlicensed growers.
    Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 31 Aug. 2024
  • The semi-trailer end dump truck's trailer overturned onto its cab while the vehicle was in use, authorities said.
    Sarah Sarder, Dallas News, 14 Aug. 2019
  • The fight grew ugly; one night in 2001, the brother rammed Wilson’s Mercedes with his dump truck.
    Sarah Schweitzer, The Atlantic, 15 Aug. 2019
  • Phoenix and Glendale crews responded to reports of a dump truck on its side on top of the car, said Todd Keller, spokesman for Phoenix fire.
    Molly Hudson, azcentral, 21 July 2019
  • An investigation found a dump truck struck a vehicle, causing a chain-reaction of collisions.
    William Langhorne, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 Aug. 2019
  • The Harrison's minivan collided head-on with a dump truck driven by 46-year-old Bernard Vaske.
    Cameron Knight, Cincinnati.com, 16 July 2019
  • Crews rescued a driver from a dump truck and took him to a trauma center Monday afternoon, after the truck went off a cliff in North Plains.
    oregonlive.com, 15 July 2019
  • The driver of the dump truck was not injured in the crash.
    Jake Allen, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Jan. 2022
  • In it, a man meets a pig who wants to ride in his dump truck.
    Georgia Garvey, chicagotribune.com, 19 Apr. 2021
  • Crews used a crane to move the dump truck bed away from the overpass.
    Mike Mavredakis, Hartford Courant, 14 Sep. 2022
  • The driver of the dump truck wasn’t hurt in the collision.
    Anchorage Daily News, 12 Jan. 2020
  • Two of the people who were killed were aboard the train while the third was in a dump truck that the train struck, said Cpl.
    Amy Simonson and Pete Muntean, CNN, 28 June 2022
  • The crash involved a car and a dump truck, the sheriff's office said.
    Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Ramp from 93 north to Pike west in Boston is shut down due to a dump truck rollover.
    Bailey Allen, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Oct. 2022
  • Officers arrived on the scene and found a dump truck had struck a tree on the south side of the road.
    Mike Mavredakis, Hartford Courant, 8 Nov. 2022
  • The car ended up wedged in between the dump truck and semi.
    Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 18 Oct. 2019
  • Debris from cities and villages is brought here in dump trucks at all hours of the day.
    Nicole Tung, Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2024
  • City dump trucks lined the street in front of the main entrance to the building, ready to block streets if needed.
    Sarah D. Wire, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The bridge was struck and brought down by a dump truck that was being used for a nearby project.
    Shepard Price, San Antonio Express-News, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Footage captured by the news outlet showed the scooter on its side near the right rear tire of the dump truck.
    Joelle Goldstein, PEOPLE.com, 10 Aug. 2021
  • The dump truck then sideswiped the semi-trailer truck and went into a ditch.
    Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 5 Dec. 2019
  • What a shame for your sister to go through life a verbal dump truck.
    cleveland, 9 Feb. 2020
  • Nearing the bridge across Bear Creek, Barnes came to a large state dump truck parked sideways across part of the road.
    Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 15 July 2022
  • But he was built like a freaking dump truck, and was about as graceful.
    Alexander Darwin, Rolling Stone, 11 Dec. 2021
  • The dump truck pivots to its side, asphalt begins to pour out.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2021
  • Below, a very large chunk of the EAA is being torn up by backhoes and dump trucks.
    Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 25 July 2024

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